The shades of long-dead writers in the London streets, random meetings, quests and journeys striking lines across the city, the past seeping through the pavements, the unexpected erupting through the fabric of of everyday life, glimpses of the fantastic in the ordinary: London Adventures can be any or all of these. In Xiaolu Guo’s story Alice of London Fields a Chinese student desperately trying to stay in London after the end of her course finds that her problems begin to disappear when a white rabbit crosses her path…

London Adventures was launched in March 2023 with the publication of House of Flies by Iain Sinclair, which follows the ghost of Arthur Machen from Gray’s Inn Road to Stoke Newington. Future contributors will include John Rogers, Rachel Lichtenstein, Andrew Kötting and Stewart Lee.